Thursday, March 12, 2015

Announced in the March 11, 2015 edition of the View from the Hill, three students in languages recieved Hall Summer Enrichment Grants: Sarah Crosley (Classics), Michaela Ousnamer (French), and Bruce Rash (French and Japanese). Learn more about the Hall Summer Enrichment Grant on the Jewell's News and Publications site.
Congratulations!

Monday, March 9, 2015

Amelia Hanzlick, International Business and French, has been chosen as a senior star for spring 2015. Read Amelia's senior star post on the departmental site. Congratulations, Amelia, on your achievements!

Thursday, March 5, 2015

Amelia Hanzlick

Senior Amelia Hanzlick majoring in International Business and French is one of 12 students selected for the 2015 Coro Kansas City Internship in Public Affairs program, which includes a full-time internship in four public affairs sectors including business, government, labor and nonprofit organizations. The program is made possible through a partnership between Park University and Coro Kansas City, which develops future community leaders through exposure to community issues, leadership development, civic leaders and organizations.

Dr. Michael Foster, assistant professor of French, presented two films, “La Grande Seduction” by Jean-Francois Pouliot and “La Petite Jerusalem” by Karin Albou, at the 2015 French Teacher Immersion Day Workshop on Feb. 28 at Rockhurst University. The event was sponsored by the Greater Kansas City Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of French.

About Me

Susan Myers, a
native of New Jersey, completed her undergraduate degree in English and French
at Houghton College, New York, spending her junior year abroad in Tours,
France. She received her Masters degree in French from Bowling Green State
University, Ohio, including another year abroad, first in Paris, then in Tours.
She completed her doctorate in French Literature from Indiana
University-Bloomington, Indiana. She has taught English in Pennsville High
School, New Jersey and worked as an in-home tutor before moving on to teaching
college level French at Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, Ohio, after marrying
her husband, Allen, who was working as a musician in Cleveland. They moved to
Liberty, Missouri, in 1995 when Susan accepted the position of French at
William Jewell College. Her husband completed his Doctorate of Musical Arts in
Composition from the University of Missouri-Kansas City and pursues a career in
musical performance and composition. The couple is raising two daughters, Caitlin
and Sarah.

Now a professor
of French, Dr. Myers teaches at William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri,
and chairs the Languages Department. She is the author of two articles on Sébastien
Japrisot, the first, “Sébastien Japrisot: It’s a Crazy Game, the Search for
Truth,” published in French Prose in 2000,
edited by Michael Bishop and Christopher Elson; and the second, “La passion des femmes” in 813: les amis de la littérature policière. She has recently finished “An Allegory of
Reading: Ambiguity, Discovery and the Reader’s Role in Sébastien Japrisot’s Piège pour Cendrillon” for inclusion
as a chapter in Sébastien Japrisot: The Art
of Crime edited by Martin Hurcombe and Simon Kemp, published 2009.

As chair of the Languages Department at Jewell, Dr. Myers has overseen the development of the Romance Languages Major, the Arabic Area Studies Minor, the Chinese Area Studies Minor, and has won two grants to improve the technology of the Languages Seminar Room and to improve the learning environment of the Language Lab.